2007 Timeline

Tony Blair resigned and other events in June 2007

Tony Blair who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 officially resigned on June 27, 2007. On the same day he resigned he was appointed official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.

Timeline of June 2007 events

June 1
- Counselor of President George W. Bush, Dan Bartlett announced that he will resign on July 4.

June 2
- Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju died at age 68.

June 3
- A suicide car bomber attacked the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi and killed 7 people. Ghedi was not injured.
- Four people were charged over a plot to bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

June 6
- The Anaheim Ducks won the NHL's Stanley Cup.

June 8
- The leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna, Arnaldo Otegi was arrested by Spanish authorities.
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.

June 9
- Belgian tennis player Justine Henin won the 2007 French Open (the Women's Singles).

June 10
- Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal won the 2007 French Open (the Men's Singles).
- Taleban fired rockets on Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he was giving a speech to elders in the province of Ghazni. Karzai was not injured.
- President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP won the French legislative elections.
- Christian Democratic and Flemish won the Belgian general elections.

June 11
- About 3 million people joined a Gay Pride parade in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.

June 13
- Shimon Peres was elected President of Israel.

June 14
- Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and former President of Austria died at age 88.
- The San Antonio Spurs won the 2007 NBA Finals.

June 16
- Fatah militants stormed the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah in the West Bank.

June 17
- Salam Fayyad sworn in as prime minister of an emergency Palestinian government.

June 20
- Boca Juniors won the Copa Libertadores 2007.

June 21
- US President used the presidential veto over embryonic stem-cell research.

June 23
- Former French President Jaques Chirac refused to testify to an inquiry into the so-called Clearstream affair.

June 26
- International inspectors visited the Yongbyon nuclear complex for the first time since 2002.
- China completed the construction of the world's longest sea-crossing bridge.

June 27
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair officially resigned and was replaced by Gordon Brown.
- Tony Blair was appointed official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.

June 28
- Israeli President Moshe Katsav admitted responsibility for a long series of sex offences.
- A series of massive forest fires broke out and throughout the summer of 2007 expanded in several areas across Greece. 68 people died as a direct result of the fire, while 2,700 square kilometers (670,000 acres) of forest, olive groves and farmland were destroyed by the fires.

June 29
- Israeli President Moshe Katsav formally submitted his resignation.
- British police discovered and disabled two car bombs in Haymarket, Central London.
- Apple's new iPhone was released in the USA.

June 30
- Failed car bomb attack at Glasgow Airport, Scotland.